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Letters from Westerbork
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Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…

Contributor:

Etty Hillesum

Places:

General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Community, Jewish identity, Death

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…

Contributor:

Zelig Kalmanovitch

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Genocide, Death

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Historical writing
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…

Contributor:

Primo Levi

Places:

Turin, Italy

Date:

1946

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Hunger, Jewish identity, Death

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
History of the House of David
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The sultan thought for a moment and said, “I know, Jew, that your heart is not devoid of intelligence. After all, you want to live a long life in your household with your children. So, do not…

Contributor:

Avraham S. Friedberg

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Folklore, Mourning, Jewish quarters, Death, Fiction

Categories:

Fiction, Folklore